Bio
Raised in the suburbs of Washington, DC and Philadelphia, PA. I am an artist with an educational background in public health. An observant, adaptive, and persistent soul, consistently challenging myself to expand.
I work in a conceptually based art practice that examines, explores and attempts to translate categorically racialized and othered populations research. I look for multilevel patterns and manifestations of systemic influence in our lives to expose and question them through paint, sculpture, moving image, installation and mixed media works.
Artist Statement as of February 26th, 2024
I’m interested in questioning societal constructions using art objects and how said objects can or do, perceivably articulate those questions. Presently, I use text, painting, sculpture, moving image, performance, and combinations of those media to conduct my work. The genesis of my work lies in public health research training and my continued interest in improving community and population health. Today, this practical background acts a foundation and guiding star for the art work I make. My works act as transgressions and refusal of white, western, American conditionings I am aware of with the tools I best know how to use: my hands and mind.
My personal experiences, art and public health research methodologies are references used to deconstruct and reconfigure, as Audre Lorde wrote “the master's tools.” I desire freedom from slavery and carcerality, unwavering personhood, and well being for all people. I look for lessons all around me ( e.g. dreams, conversations, family photos, daily routines, reading, etc..) to inform and progress my process. A process that I want to align with Black liberation that is consistently aspirational to me in this current world order, ergo I am dreaming and aspiring with this art practice.
With all my work, I aspire that those who attempt to understand the ubiquity of anti-blackness and its vast impact on this world through scholarship and lived experience also attempt to understand my work. I make work to communicate with others and those struggling with “otherness.”